Walk MS: Las Cruces to be Saturday

The walk has a 1-, 2.5- and 5-mile routes. Registration begins at 8 a.m.

The event aims to raise $18,000 to help an estimated 2,400 New Mexicans living with multiple sclerosis and their families served by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

MS is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the body. Symptoms range from numbness to paralysis.